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Season 19 Episode 19
Season 19, Episode 19: Happy New Year! Time for another Final Word tradition, the best and worst in cricket of 2025. This past year was one with a lo…
2 months, 1 week ago
No retirement signal from Usman Khawaja
Season 19 Episode 18
Season 19, Episode 18: With another longer than expected pause between Tests, thoughts turn to Sydney and the end of the series. But there is no sign…
2 months, 1 week ago
Story Time 252 – The commando and the buried POW camp
Season 19
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we stumble by many coincidences onto the story of Australian Test cricket's WWII…
2 months, 1 week ago
TFW Ashes Daily - the MCG aftermath
Season 19
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 3 wrap: The whole country is fixated on one thing: 22 yards of grass in the middle of the MCG, and how …
2 months, 1 week ago
TFW Ashes Daily - England break the drought - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2
Season 19
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2: Once again, we are left to survey a field of smoking wreckage and ask, what the hell was that? Anoth…
2 months, 1 week ago
TFW Ashes Daily - One insane Boxing Day - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 1
Season 19
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 1: What a ridiculous day. For years Melbourne was the most boring pitch in the country, but there will …
2 months, 1 week ago
TFW Ashes Daily - Jhye flies; Jofra grounded - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 0
Season 19
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 0: It's been four years since Jhye Richardson stood at the top of his mark in a Test Match but that loo…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Final Word Christmas with Andy Zaltzman
Season 19 Episode 16
Season 19, Episode 16: Merry Christmas to all. In carrying on our tradition of a festive interview with a much-loved contributor to the game, not man…
2 months, 1 week ago
Story Time 251 – Chariots of Fire from 0.2 seconds back
Season 19
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we're still in Adelaide as we discover by tangent the tale of one of the 20th ce…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
TFW Ashes Daily - End of an era - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 6
Season 19
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 6: Quiet settles on the Adelaide hills, as Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross take a beat to consider the e…
2 months, 2 weeks ago